Ash pan



R. B. FARRAR ASH PAN may 3, 1927. 1,627,023

Filed Feb. 16, 192s Roy B. fr/vr' @mmv Patented May 3, 1927.

UNITED STATES ROY B. FARB/AR, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

ASH PAN.

Application filed February My present invention relates to imirovements in ash pans designed. for use in the ash pits of stoves and furnaces. rli`he primary object of the invention the provision of au ash pan that is of a size as to completely occupy the lioor of the ash pit of a. stove or furnace in order that all of the ashes falling from the lire pot may be caught inA the receptacle,`and at the same time so constructed as to enable it to be withdrawn with facility from the ash pit through its comparatively small door opena ing. To this end the ash pan comprises `a plurality 'of sections arranged in such relation and equipped with handles so that they may be manipulated with convenience and placed in or withdrawn from the ash pit with facility'. In the exeniplification of the invention herein described and illustrated the ash pan comprises a central or main section that may be handled as a. unit and a complementary pair of smaller side sections that may be manipulated as a unit.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangen'ients of parts for carrying out the above indicated results as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and. claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged in accord with the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of .my invention.

Figure l is a perspective view of the ash pan involvingl my invention with the sections iu assembled position used in an ash pit.

l `igure 2 a transverse, vertical sectional view of the ash pan on line 2--2 of .ll'iglure l..

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the two side sections assembled for handling as a unit.

Figure fl: is an enlarged, detail sectional view of adjoiningl inner walls of the side sections, showing by dotted lines the handles thereon in position for use.

In the preferred form of the invention I utilize three sections, as a main section l and two smaller side sections as 2 and 3. The main or intermediate section is preferably rectangular in shape and provided with front handle l and rear handle 4' to facilitate handling of it when emptying the 1G, 1926. Serial N0. 88,545.

ashes therefrom. The side sections also have front handles as 5 and 5 of the usual pivoted or hinged type similar to handles et and e of the main section.

The pan sections are preferably provided each with a transversely. disposed cross bar as (i connecting its side walls and located near the top of the section. rThese bars not only perform the functions of braces for strengthening the pan sections, but may also be used as handles for the respective sections when the latter are empty.

lV hen used in circular ash pits the outer side walls of the side sections and the back wall of the main section are rounded to conner side walls of the side sections as 7 and are arranged on straight lines in parallelism and parallel with the side walls As best seen in Figure 2 the inner walls 'T and 7 of the two side sections are higher the side walls of the main section are higher than these .inner walls of the side sections.

form to the walls of the ash pit, but the inn of the main section.

than the other walls of said sections, and

Along the upper edges of the side walls of the main section are fashioned angulai-v fianges 8 and 8 which overhang the respective walls 7 and 7 of the side sections. Thus when the two side sections are placed within the ash pit and separated or spaced apart, the main section is slid into place between. these sections and the flanges 8 8 overhang the walls 7 and 7 to prevent ashes falling between the sections and to draw the two side sections toward and hold them in close relation to the main section.

For the purpose of emptying the pan of ashes the main or intermediate section is lirst removed, and then the two side sections are brought together, as in Figure 3, and removed as a unit.

In order that the two side sections may be handled as a unit, each of' them is provided ou the inner face of its inner or straight wall, as 7 T with handles 9 and 10. These handles are in the form of inverted U-shape yokes, disposed vertically at the sides of the sect-ions and vertically slidable in double looped brackets l1 secured to the walls of the sections., At their lower ends the handles are fashioned with out turned lugs 12 which prevent displacement of the handles and receive the load when used as carriers in dotted position in Figure e. 'lhe two handles 9 and 10 are located in such position with relation to one another that they may readily be grasped in one hand when lifted above the top edges of the walls 7 and T and when the Sections are ass-einliled as in l `ignre l the two handles 5 and 5 may be `graspetl in the other hand for the pnrpoee olf carryingl these two eeetione as a unit when emptying` them of ashes;

lllhen the pan is in place in the ash pit the adjustable or leldahle handles 9 and l0 are dropped to their lower positions as Shown in Alull linee Figure l and in the other figures of the drawing'.

Having' thns fully deserihed my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure hy Letters Patent isl. An aah pan Compri-sing' a pair oll Laide Sections haring l'lat vertical inner Walle of an elevation greater than the onter walls thereof, an intermediate section having flat vertical Side walls of an elevation greater than the Side inner walls of said Side sections, and downtnrned flanges on the tops of' the Side walls of Said intermediate Seetion, Said llangl'es extending at an incline down over the edges o'l' the inner walls or said eide sections in servire position.

ln a Sectional ash pan haring a pair olf Sections adapted to be arranged in abuttingI side to Side position ior traimportation, 'vertieally slidahle handle members carried hy the meeting' eide walls ot said sec-tions. said handles heine' arranged for elevation in jnx taposition ahoi'e the tops of Said sections in t'ansporting position, and tor depression beneath the tope in Service position.

ln testin'iony whereotl l all'ix my signature.

ROY B. FRRAR. 

